Since I pulled way back from writing blog posts on politics, and radically reduced by attention to the day to day activities of the sociopathic crowd who dominates the news, I have found my outlook  improved even if my view of our country’s future has not.  I’ve begun reading fiction again for pleasure for the…

The modern world’s essentially autistic view of reality has suffered many assaults over the past 150 years.  In particular Darwin, the paradoxes of quantum mechanics and the rise of ecology as a science and a societal crisis, among other issues,  all are suggesting that this approach to the world is self-defeating, scientifically mistaken, and immoral.…

It is so very easy to get caught up in the organized sociopathy that is characteristic of so much politics and organized ‘religion’.  A walk in nature is one of the best correctives.  But that is not always possible.  This video of a side of grizzly bears most folks have never imagined is a decent…

Today is Earth Day, and For the first time many in modern America decided to honor their home and make a personal commitment to protect it.  Some have kept that commitment. Most of the powers that be, Democratic and Republican, no longer pay it any mind beyond an occasional sneer or shrug.  Even so, symbolically…

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